Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-12-16

Diamonds valued at Sl40O, on which no
duty had been paid, were discovered in
package in the New York post office the
other day. They were confscated.
According to the statements of the great
ready-made clothing dealers, the average
height and weight of men in this country
have perceptbly increased since the war.
Eliza II. Snow the Mormon poetrcss, died
at Salt Lake City Monday, aged 81 She
was the plural wife of Joe Smith Of Nauvoo
and was one of the central figures of the
Mormon galaxy.
The deepest well in this country is at
Northampton, Mass, sunk by Belding
Bros. x Co., silk manufacturers. 1t Is
3, 200 feet deep and $ inches diameter. At
a depth of 40 feet from the surface sed-
imentary sandstone was struck, which CON
tinued the whole depth and water was
never obtained. At st. Louis there is a
we'll 3, $50 feet deep, which yields an
abundance of sulphur water.
A late Washington despatch says; \ -
bill was received at the redemption bureau
today from Palmer, Mass, having attached
10 it a statement that it had been exposed
to contagious disease, and. although fumi-
gated would better receive careful hand
ling. When the young woman who re
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bill with a scream, which brought 30 other
young women in the division crowding
around her desk
Expert iron-workers say that curtains
and other fine laces can he made of soft
malleable iron and in every way be used
with greater satisfaction than cotton laces
The sheets will necessarily have to be roll
ed down to an exceedingly low gauge and
then pressed into any desirable pattern and
shape, There will be no trouble in furnish
ing iron laces for ladies and childreu's
wear, with their names and other urna
mentations in iiligree design.
The dead letter office report show, that
the number of letters received there last
year was / IA per ct, above the year he
fore, amounting to ,, 53j, 3G3 pieces in ALL
The contents of these stray missves mclu-
ded S99, GS1 in cash and Si,Gii, 1856 in nego
table paper. 1t speaks well for the ellicl
cheney of the dead letter department of the
service that all money except SiOiG, and
all commercial paper except that IA the
amount of SlG2 i2j, has been returned tn
its proper owners The surplus that can
not be properly redelivered is applied To
the expenses Of the department
When Butler ruled in New Orleans he
had the words, The Union must aud shall
he maintained, cut on the pedestal of the
equestrian statue of Gcn. jackson This
was recognized 10y the Northern press as II
good hit, and so when Gen. Banks succeed
ed Butler at New Orleans desirous of simi
lar eclat, he ransackcd the speeches Of Clay
until he found these words against slavery
which We're cut ON the pedestal of the Clay
statue, "lf ! could erase the stain of sla,
cry from this country and its constitution
| would rather have that honor than all the
glory ever decreed to the greatest conquer
or on earth
The new prpprietors and conductors of
the New York Ledger are energetic aud
shrewd young men. They made very
good bargain with their father, paying him
in hard cash two dollars for the splendid
marble .iireproof building at the corner Of
Spruce and William, and one dollar for the
historical Journal which counts its readers
by hundreds of thousands II ,hey keep on
trading this way il will not bee long before
each is worth full million in his own
right The three dollars which Mr. B,uucr
received from the bows has been set aside
as a nest egg The founder of the Ledger
did not walk out of the Office empty handed
lie has little something 10 purchase com
fort in his old age.